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Monitoring rsyslog’s impstats with Kibana and SPM

Original post: Monitoring rsyslog with Kibana and SPM by @Sematext

A while ago we published this post where we explained how you can get stats about rsyslog, such as the number of messages enqueued, the number of output errors and so on. The point was to send them to Elasticsearch (or Logsene, our logging SaaS, which exposes the Elasticsearch API) in order to analyze them.

This is part 2 of that story, where we share how we process these stats in production. We’ll cover:

  • an updated config, working with Elasticsearch 2.x
  • what Kibana dashboards we have in Logsene to get an overview of what rsyslog is doing
  • how we send some of these metrics to SPM as well, in order to set up alerts on their values: both threshold-based alerts and anomaly detection

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